United States Strategic Bombing Survey. De forenede
staters strategiske bombeanalyseenhed under anden verdenskrig,
ledet af økonomen John Kenneth Galbraith. USBUS analyserede
"vurderinger af den industrielle og militære effekt af
bombningerne af Tyskland.
The strategic bombing of German industry, transportation and
cities, was gravely disappointing. Attacks on factories that made
such seemingly crucial components as ball bearings, and even
attacks on aircraft plants, were sadly useless. With plant and
machinery relocation and more determined management, fighter
aircraft production actually increased in early 1944 after major
bombing. In the cities, the random cruelty and death inflicted from
the sky had no appreciable effect on war production or the war.
These findings were vigorously resisted by the Allied armed
services -- especially, needless to say, the air command, even
though they were the work of the most capable scholars and were
supported by German industry officials and impeccable German
statistics, as well as by the director of German arms production,
Albert Speer.